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DYNASTIC BANKING FAMILIES

These eight private banks own the
most shares of the Federal Reserve. Essentially, they own the
FED.

1. Rothschild Bank of London
2. Warburg Bank of Hamburg
3. Rothschild Bank of Berlin
4. Lehman Brothers of New York
5. Lazard Brothers of Paris
6. Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
7. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
8. Goldman, Sachs of New York
9. Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
10. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York

"During the past two centuries
when the peoples of the world were gradually winning their political
freedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking families
of Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by setting
up new dynasties of political control through the formation of
international financial combines. These banking dynasties had
learned that all governments must have sources of revenue from
which to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned that
by providing such funds from their own private resources, they
could make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservient
to their will.

Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy
and Hope"

"By the end of the 1890's
[J.P.] Morgan and [John D.] Rockefeller had become the giants
of an increasingly powerful Money Trust controlling American industry
and government policy. There was little room for the actual practice
of democracy in their world. Power was the commodity of their
trade. It was the creation of an American aristocracy of blood
and money, every bit as elite and exclusive as the titled nobility
of Britain, Germany or France - despite the Constitutional ban
on titled nobility in America. It was an oligarchy, a plutocracy
in every sense of the word - rule by the wealthiest in their self-interest.
Some 60 families - names like Rockefeller, Morgan, Dodge, Mellon,
Pratt, Harkness, Whitney, Duke, Harriman, Carnegie, Vanderbilt,
DuPont, Guggenheim, Astor, Lehman, Warburg, Taft, Huntington,
Baruch and Rosenwald formed a close network of plutocratic wealth
that manipulated, bribed, and bullied its way to control the destiny
of the United States. At the dawn of the 20th Century, some sixty
ultra-rich families, through dynastic intermarriage and corporate,
interconnected shareholdings, had gained control of American industry
and banking institutions."

F. William Engdahl in his book
"Gods of Money"

"The merchant bankers of
London had already at hand in 1810-1850 the Stock Exchange, the
Bank of England, and the London money market when the needs of
advancing industrialism called all of these into the industrial
world which they had hitherto ignored. In time they brought into
their financial network the provincial banking centers, organized
as commercial banks and savings banks, as well as insurance companies,
to form all of these into a single financial system on an international
scale which manipulated the quantity and flow of money so that
they were able to influence, if not control, governments on one
side and industries on the other. The men who did this, looking
backward toward the period of dynastic monarchy in which they
had their own roots, aspired to establish dynasties of international
bankers and were at least as successful at this as were many of
the dynastic political rulers. The greatest of these dynasties,
of course, were the descendants of Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812)
of Frankfort, whose male descendants, for at least two generations,
generally married first cousins or even nieces. Rothschild's five
sons, established at branches in Vienna, London, Naples, and Paris,
as well as Frankfort, cooperated together in ways which other
international banking dynasties copied but rarely excelled."

Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy
and Hope"

"We are ruled, though it
may be difficult to imagine, by a small dynastic power structure,
largely consisting of powerful banking families, such as the Rothschilds,
Rockefellers, and others. The emerged in controlling the financial
system, extended their influence over the political system, the
educational system, and, through the major foundations, have become
the dominant social powers of our world, creating think tanks
and other institutions which shape and change the course of society
and modern human history. Among these central institutions which
extend the domination of these elites and their social group are
the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, and the
Trilateral Commission."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

"Hundreds of years ago,
bankers began to specialize, with the richer and more influential
ones associated increasingly with foreign trade and foreign-exchange
transactions. Since these were richer and more cosmopolitan and
increasingly concerned with questions of political significance,
such as stability and debasement of currencies, war and peace,
dynastic marriages, and worldwide trading monopolies, they became
the financiers and financial advisers of governments.
Moreover, since their relationships with governments were always
in monetary terms and not real terms, and since they were always
obsessed with the stability of monetary exchanges between one
country's money and another, they used their power and influence
to do two things: (1) to get all money and debts expressed in
terms of a strictly limited commodity - ultimately gold; and (2)
to get all monetary matters out of the control of governments
and political authority, on the ground that they would be handled
better by private banking interests."

Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy
and Hope"

"J. W. McCallister, oil
industry insider with House of Saud connections, wrote in The
Grim Reaper that information he acquired from Saudi bankers cited
80% ownership of the New York Federal Reserve Bank - by far the
most powerful Fed branch - by just eight families, only four of
which reside in the US. They are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers,
Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschild's of Paris
and London; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of
Rome."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big
Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

GLOBAL DYNASTIC ELITE

"At the center of oligarchy
is the idea that certain families are born to rule as an arbitrary
elite, while the vast majority of any given population is condemned
to oppression, serfdom, or slavery. Oligarchs identify wealth
purely in money terms, and practice usury, monetarism, and looting.
... The essence of oligarchism is summed up in the idea of the
empire, in which an elite identifying itself as a master race
rules over a degraded mass of slaves or other oppressed victims.
If oligarchical methods are allowed to dominate human affairs,
they always create a breakdown crisis of civilization, with economic
depression, war, famine, plague, and pestilence. A pillar of the
oligarchical system is the family fortune. The continuity of the
family fortune which earns money through usury and looting is
often more important than the biological continuity across generations
of the family that owns the fortune."
"The Venetian Black Nobility and the Concept of Oligarchy"
an article by Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley & James Higham

"There is a vast network of private financial interests,
controlled by the leading aristocratic and royal families of Europe.
... A secret cross-linked vast holding of private financial interests
is tied to the old aristocratic oligarchy of Western Europe."

William Engdahl , Executive Intelligence
Review, April 1997

"European dynastic families
constitute a financial oligarchy; they are the power behind the
Windsor throne [Britain]. They view themselves as the heirs to
the Venetian oligarchy [Black Nobility] ."

historian Jeffrey Steinberg, henrymakow.com

"The Black Nobility are
the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century
held privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three
crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian
Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling
class. In 1204 the oligarchic families parceled out feudal enclaves
to their members, and from this date, they built up power until
government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility
families.
The European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements
of numerous secret societies and organizations, which are backed
with high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizations
include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR), United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF),
World Bank, Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Club of Rome,
Chatham House, and many others. Present day European Black Nobility
families are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the original
Black Nobility families of Venice from which the House of Windsor
and thus the present Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II
descends."

Dr. John Coleman in his book "The
Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power"

"During the Middle Ages,
European power centers coalesced into two camps: the Ghibellines
and the Guelphs. The Pope then allied himself with the Guelphs
against the Ghibellines resulting in their victory. All of modern
history stems directly from the struggle between these two powers.
The Guelphs were also called the Black Guelphs and Black Nobility.
Every subsequent coup d'état, revolution and war has centered
in the battle of the Guelphs to hold and enhance their power,
which is now the World Order. The power of the Guelphs grew through
their control of banking and international trade."

Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley &
James Higham in their book "The Venetian Black Nobility and
the Concept of Oligarchy"

HOUSE OF WINDSOR

"The House of Guelph, one
of the Black Nobility families of Venice, is the oldest dynasty
in Europe being some 800 years old. It survives to this day as
the British House of WIndsor. Other important present-day European
"Black Nobility" families include: House of Bernadotte
(Sweden), House of Bourbon (France), House of Braganza (Portugal),
House of Grimaldi (Monaco), House of Habsburg (Austria,) House
of Hanover (Germany), House of Hohenzollern (Germany), House of
Karadjordjevic (Yugoslavia), House of Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein),
House of Nassau (Luxembourg), House of Oldenburg (Denmark), House
of Orange (Netherlands), House of Savoy (Italy,) House of Wettin
(Belgium), House of Wittelsbach (Germany), House of Württemberg
(Germany), House of Zogu (Albania)."

Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley &
James Higham in an article "The Venetian Black Nobility and
the Concept of Oligarchy"

"The forerunners of the
Freemasons - the Knights Templar - founded the concept of banking
and created a "bond market" as a means to control European
nobles through war debts... The Crusader Knights Templar looted
a huge store of gold and numerous sacred artifacts from beneath
the Solomon Temple. (King Solomon was the son of King David)...
The claimed lineage to the House of David is what the Illuminati
use to justify their global control."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big
Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

"The bulwark of the British
financial oligarchy lies in its ageless and self-perpetuating
nature, its long-range planning and prescience, its facility to
outwait and break the patience of its opponents. The transient
and temporal statesmen of Europe and particularly of Britain itself,
who have attempted to curb this monstrosity have all been defeated
by their limited tenure of confidence. Obligated to show action
and results in a too short span of years, they have been outwitted
and outwaited, deluged with irritants and difficulties; eventually
obliged to temporize and retreat. There are few who have opposed
them in Britain and America, without coming to a disgraceful end,
but many, who served them well, have also profited well."

E.C. Knuth in his book "The
Empire of The City", 1946

"Queen Elizabeth II, head
of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories,
is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth
of the earth's non-ocean surface. She is the only person on earth
who owns whole countries. The value of her land holding is approximately
$28,000,000,000,000. This makes her the richest individual on
earth."

Kevin Cahill from his book "Who
Owns The World"

"The British royal family
rules the world, but they do not rule it alone. There are at least
three other actors: central banks, the legacy of Cecil Rhodes,
and the immense financial power of the biggest international banking
family, the Rothschilds."

"Who Runs The World And Controls
The Value Of Assets?" an article by Joan Veon

"Club of the Isles is a
European cartel - centered within the City of London and headed
by the House of Windsor - which controls every aspect of the global
economy -- banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, raw
materials, transportation, factories, major retail groups, the
stock and commodities markets, politicians and governments, media,
intelligence agencies, drugs and organized crime."

VATICAN

"The Vatican has large
investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America,
with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich.
In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan
Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New
York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. The Vatican has billions
of shares in the most powerful international corporations such
as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric,
International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc. At a conservative
estimate, these amount to more than 500 million dollars in the
U.S.A. alone.
... In a statement published in connection with a bond prospectus,
the Boston archdiocese listed its assets at Six Hundred and Thirty-five
Million ($635,891,004), which is 9.9 times its liabilities. This
leaves a net worth of Five Hundred and Seventy-one million dollars
($571,704,953). It is not difficult to discover the truly astonishing
wealth of the church, once we add the riches of the twenty-eight
archdioceses and 122 dioceses of the U.S.A., some of which are
even wealthier than that of Boston.
... Some idea of the real estate and other forms of wealth controlled
by the Catholic church may be gathered by the remark of a member
of the New York Catholic Conference, namely 'that his church probably
ranks second only to the United States Government in total annual
purchase.' Another statement, made by a nationally syndicated
Catholic priest, perhaps is even more telling. 'The Catholic church,'
he said, 'must be the biggest corporation in the United States.
We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and
real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T.,
and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members
must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.
... The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together,
is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican,
independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated
towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's
financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often
it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at
one time.
... The Vatican's treasure of solid gold has been estimated by
the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion
dollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the
U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland
hold the rest. But this is just a small portion of the wealth
of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that
of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country. When
to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares
abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the
Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational
assessment.
... The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth
accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater
possessor of material riches than any other single institution,
corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole
globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment
of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth
century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth
in terms of billions of dollars.
...The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international
corporations... The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds
of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the
Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has
large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank,
the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company,
and others."

from the book "The Vatican
Billions" by Avro Manhattan, 1983

"During a war you will
never see the Vatican, City of London or Switzerland get attacked.
On the grand chessboard these are considered neutral ground because
it is where all the money flows. Without money to fund war, there
is no war."

from an article "Bank of England,
City of London and The Queen" http://wideshut.co.uk

"Early in the 19th century
the Pope came to the Rothschilds to borrow money... The Rothschilds
over time were entrusted with the bulk of the Vatican's wealth.
... The Rothschilds took over all the financial operations of
the worldwide Catholic Church in 1823. Today the large banking
and financial business of the Catholic Church is an extensive
system interlocked with the Rothschilds
and the rest of the International Banking system."

Fritz Springmeier, 2003

"At the present time (1905)
the Rothschilds are guardians of the papal treasure."

The Jewish Encylopedia, 1905

"In 1982 Reagan met with
Pope John Paul II... At the meeting the two agreed to launch a
clandestine program to tear Eastern Europe away from the Soviets.
Poland, the Pope's country of origin, would be the key. Catholic
priests, the AFL-CIO, the National Endowment for Democracy, the
Vatican Bank and CIA would all be deployed."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big
Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

ECONOMIC SHOCK THERAPY

"The neoliberal global
system never was open in practice. America never imposed on itself
the kind of shock therapy that President Clinton's Treasury Secretary
Robert Rubin promoted in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet
bloc, from the Baltic countries in the northwest to Central Asia
in the southeast. Just the opposite! Despite the fact that America's
own balance of trade and payments is soaring, consumer prices
are rising and financial and property markets are plunging, there
are no calls among its power elite to let the system self-correct.
The Treasury is subsidizing America's financial markets so as
to save its financial class and support its asset prices. Interest
rates are being lowered to re-inflate asset prices, not raised
to stabilize the dollar or slow domestic price inflation."

Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers

"The entire thirty-year
history of he Chicago School experiment has been one of mass corruption
and corporatist collusion between security states and large corporations,
from Chile's piranhas, to Argentina's crony privatizations, to
Russia's oligarchs, to Enron's energy shell game, to Iraq's "free
fraud zone." The point of shock therapy is to open up a window
for enormous profits to be made very quickly-not despite the lawlessness
but precisely because of it."

Naomi Klein in her book "The
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"

"The Latin American debt
crisis ... erupted as a direct result of [US Federal Reserve Chairman
Paul] Volcker's interest rate shock therapy. In August 1982 Mexico
announced it could no longer pay the interest on its staggering
dollar debt. Mexico, along with most of the Third World from Argentina
to Brazil, from Nigeria to Congo, from Poland to Yugoslavia, had
fallen for the New York banks' debt trap."

F. William Engdahl in his book
"Gods of Money"

"Along with former Federal
Reserve chairman Paul Volcker; Citibank vice-chairman H. Anno
Ruding, who was formerly with the IMF; and Harvard Professor Jeffrey
Sachs, George Soros had a big hand in creating the Polish model
of "shock therapy." [Sachs drew Soros's attention through
his work in implementing IMF-style "shock therapy" in
Bolivia.]"

Executive Intelligence Review Special
Report, April 1997

"The Communist state was
simply replaced with a corporatist one: the beneficiaries of the
boom were confined to a small club of Russians, many of them former
Communist Party apparatchiks, and a handful of Western mutual
fund managers who made dizzying returns investing in newly privatized
Russian companies. A clique of nouveaux billionaires, many of
whom were to become part of the group universally known as "the
oligarchs" for their imperial levels of wealth and power,
teamed up with Yeltsin's Chicago Boys and stripped the country
of nearly everything of value, moving the enormous profits offshore
at a rate of $2 billion a month. Before shock therapy, Russia!
had no millionaires; by 2003, the number of Russian billionaires
had risen to seventeen, according to the Forbes list.
... By 1998, more than 80 percent of Russian farms had gone bankrupt,
and roughly seventy thousand state factories had closed, creating
an epidemic of unemployment. In 1989, before shock therapy, 2
million people in the Russian Federation were living in poverty,
on less than $4 a day. By the time the shock therapists had administered
their "bitter medicine" in the mid-nineties, 74 million
Russians were living below the poverty line, according to the
World Bank. That means that Russia's "economic reforms"
can claim credit for the impoverishment of 72 million people in
only eight years. By 1996, 25 percent of Russians - almost 37
million people-lived in poverty described as "desperate."
Russia's population is ... in dramatic decline-the country is
losing roughly 700,000 people a year. Between 1992, the first
full year of shock therapy, and 2006, Russia's population shrank
by 6.6 million."

Naomi Klein in her book "The
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"

"The aim of Washington's
IMF "market reforms" in the former Soviet Union was
brutally simple: destroy the economic ties that bound Moscow to
each part of the Soviet Union .... IMF shock therapy was intended
to create weak, unstable economies on the periphery of Russia,
dependent on Western capital and on dollar inflows for their survival
-- a form of neocolonialism .... The Russians were to get the
standard Third World treatment... IMF conditionalities and a plunge
into poverty for the population. A tiny elite were allowed to
become fabulously rich in dollar terms, and manipulable by Wall
Street bankers and investors."

William Engdahl in his book"
A Century of War"

"The country has been intentionally
plundered and will eventually wind up in the hands of its creditors...
After a nation is successfully driven to destitution, public policy
decisions are made by creditors and not by representatives of
the people .... The catastrophe that middle class Americans face
is what these elites breezily refer to as "shock therapy";
a sudden jolt, followed by fundamental changes to the system.
In the near future we can expect tax reform, fiscal discipline,
deregulation, free capital flows, lowered tariffs, reduced public
services, and privatization."

Mike Whitney, 2005

"For over 40 years, Washington
had quietly supported Yugoslavia, and the Tito model of mixed
socialism, as a buffer against the Soviet Union. As Moscow's empire
began to fall apart, Washington had no more use for a buffer -
especially a nationalist buffer which was economically successful,
one that might convince neighboring states in eastern Europe that
a middle way other than IMF shock therapy was possible. The Yugoslav
model had to be dismantled, for this reason alone, in the eyes
of top Washington strategists. The fact that Yugoslavia also lay
on a critical path to the potential oil riches of central Asia
merely added to the argument."

William Engdahl in his book"
A Century of War"

ECONOMICS

"Economic science is an
ideological construct which serves to camouflage and justify the
New World Order. A set of dogmatic postulates serves to uphold
free market capitalism by denying the existence of social inequality
and the profit-driven nature of the system is denied. The role
of powerful economic actors and how these actors are able to influence
the workings of financial and commodity markets is not a matter
of concern for the discipline's theoreticians. The powers of market
manipulation which serve to appropriate vast amounts of money
wealth are rarely addressed."

Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research

"The theories offered by
economists rationalize the self-interest of big business and the
wealthy. Such theories claim to benefit society and the public's
well-being. But they do just the opposite: they make the great
mass of people poorer while making the rich fabulously richer."

economist Ravi Batra

"What [the wealthy elite]
are trying to do is to roll back the Enlightenment, roll back
the moral philosophy and social values of classical political
economy and its culmination in Progressive Era legislation, as
well as the New Deal institutions. They're not trying to make
the economy more equal, and they're not trying to share power.
Their greed is (as Aristotle noted) infinite. So what you find
to be a violation of traditional values is a re-assertion of pre-industrial,
feudal values. The economy is being set back on the road to debt
peonage. The Road to Serfdom is not government sponsorship of
economic progress and rising living standards; it's the dismantling
of government, the dissolution of regulatory agencies, to create
a new feudal-type elite."

Michael Hudson, 2008

"Today CEOs and wealthy
businessmen are the ruling elite in the Western world, especially
the United States. Their donations finance elections and even
education, which they are constantly saying has to adapt itself
to the needs of the market (that is, be molded to inculcate their
views. It should come as no surprise therefore that the theories
offered by economists rationalize the self-interest of big business
and the wealthy. Overtly, of course, such theories claim to benefit
society and the public's well-being. But covertly, they do just
the opposite: they make the great mass of people poorer while
making the rich fabulously richer."

Ravi Batra in his book "The
New Golden Age", 2007

"The advanced capitalist
economies of North America and Europe are desperately trying to
maintain their hegemony and economic survival by means of austerity
programs which shift the burden of the depression from the wealthy
financiers and speculators who created it to the poor and working
class who must pay for it... The Western imperial powers seek
to destroy the social safety net and drive their populations into
further destitution and desperation. This is the crisis of advanced,
post-industrial capitalism - an economic system which must expand
the divide between rich and poor, create extremes of wealth and
poverty and generally perpetuate itself on the misery and poverty
of the lower classes."

Eric Draitser, Global Research,
2013

"Economists are schooled in
bank-funded university economics departments where they are thoroughly
indoctrinated in monetary theories. The Money Power ensures that
economists are methodically trained in economic language and thought
and are programmed to spout the official, approved version.
... Economists show no inclination whatsoever to challenge the
fundamentals of a centuries old fraudulent practice of private,
debt-based, interest-bearing money creation.

Gabriel Donohoe

"Why don't elite economists
ever want to reduce payroll, gasoline and sales taxes? Why do
they always want to cut income and corporate taxes? Why do some
Ivy League experts always want to slash tax rates on capital gains
and dividends? Why is their theory silent about the beneficial
effects of cuts for low-income people? The reason is simple: these
other rate cuts won't offer much benefit to the rich, so well-paid
economists working for the affluent see no investment and growth
benefits from such reductions. If the experts urged consideration
of tax cuts for the middle and lower classes, their colleges would
likely starve for donations from the CEOs."

Ravi Batra in his book "The
New Golden Age", 2007

"83 percent of all U.S.
stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
66% of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top
1% of all Americans.
In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the
average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000,
that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held
about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now
collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation's wealth.
The top 1% of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's
corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
More than 40% of Americans who actually are employed are now working
in service jobs.
For the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans
are on food stamps.
Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States
are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in
20 years.
The top 10% of Americans now earn around 50% of our national income."

www.businessinsider.com/, July
2010

"In 1959, manufacturing
represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented
11.5 percent.
The United States has lost 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs
since the year 2000."

Michael Snyder, 2010

"The big question is why
hasn't government and the Fed tried to solve the economic situation
[in the United States]? The answer is they have no intention of
doing so, because they want the public on their knees economically
and financially so they can impose World Government."

Bob Chapman, 2011

EMPIRE OF CHAOS

"They have pillaged the
world. When the land has nothing left for men who ravage everything,
they scour the sea. If an enemy is rich, they are greedy; if he
is poor, they crave glory. Neither East nor West can sate their
appetite. They are the only people on earth to covet wealth and
poverty with equal craving. They plunder, they butcher, they ravish,
and call it by the lying name of 'empire'. They make a desert
and call it 'peace'."

Publius Cornelius Tacitus - a historian
of the Roman Empire

"America is today the leader
of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of
vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome
consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign
communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so
far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the
rich, Rome's policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for
the least happiness of the greatest number."

Arnold Toynbee,1961

"Coming to grips with U.S./CIA
activities in broad numbers and figuring out how many people have
been killed in the jungles of Laos or the hills of Nicaragua is
very difficult. But, adding them up as best we can, we come up
with a figure of six million people killed-and this is a minimum
figure. Included are: one million killed in the Korean War, two
million killed in the Vietnam War, 800,000 killed in Indonesia,
one million in Cambodia, 20,000 killed in Angola ... and 22,000
killed in Nicaragua. These people would not have died if U.S.
tax dollars had not been spent by the CIA to inflame tensions,
finance covert political and military activities and destabilize
societies."

John Stockwell, CIA official in
the 1960s and 1970s

"We thought we knew what
would happen in Libya. We thought we knew what would happen in
Egypt. We thought we knew what would happen in Iraq, and we guessed
wrong. In each one of these countries the thing we have to consider
is that there is some structure that's holding the society together.
And as we learned, especially in Libya, when you remove the top
and the whole thing falls apart . . . you get chaos."

former Secretary of State Colin
Powell

"The American elite's unbounded,
unquestioned, indeed unconscious sense of imperial entitlement
and dominance -- based ultimately on war, the threat of war and
the profit from war -- is one of the defining characteristics
of our age. Our political and media elite cannot conceive of an
end to empire. Our elites and their courtiers cannot imagine life
without a permanent war for global dominance, fueled by a gargantuan
war machine spread across hundreds and hundreds of bases implanted
in more than 100 countries."

Chris Floyd

"Since the late 1940s,
the United States has been deliberately engaged in an imperial
project, and anyone who would hold the office of the presidency
has to be willing to serve that end. All presidents have to promote
the national security state, both domestically and in American
foreign policy, if they wish to attain and hold on to power."

Morris Berman

"The basic and generally
agreed U.S. plan is unilateral world domination through absolute
military superiority."

Anatol Lieven, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace

"Because the United States
does not look like a militarized country, it's hard for Americans
to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States
is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that
the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any moment."

Tom Engelhardt

"The United States has
discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and
embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok."

William Rockler, Nuremberg Tribunal
prosecutor

"Since the fall of the
Berlin Wall in November 1989, the Pentagon had been pursuing a
military strategy for domination of the entire planet. It was
called by the Pentagon, 'Full Spectrum Dominance' and as its name
implied, its agenda was to control everything everywhere including
the high seas air, space and even outer space and cyberspace."

F. William Engdahl

"The real motivation behind
US military interventions during the cold war was not Soviet deterrence
but the crushing of popular, indigenous nationalist movements
for independence, and the establishment of US control over strategic
regions."

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed from his
book "Behind the War on Terror"

"The U.S. military acts
in the interests of the corporate and financial elite, and those
countries that do not submit to American economic hegemony are
deemed enemies, and the military is ultimately sent in to implement
"regime change."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

"The Western banking system
controls a worldwide electronic banking network. The control of
money creation at a world level constitutes the ultimate instrument
of economic and social domination... The ultimate lever of the
U.S.-NATO imperial design is to override and destroy national
currencies."

Michel Chossudovsky in the book
"The Global Economic Crisis"

"Stop talking so much about
democracy and instead support dictatorships of the right if their
policies are pro-American."

U.S. Treasury Secretary George
Humphrey, 1954

"Through slick Madison
Avenue marketing techniques and careful study of genuine protest
movements, the US Government had perfected techniques for 'democratically'
getting rid of any opponent, while convincing the world they were
brought down by spontaneous outbursts for freedom."

F. William Engdahl

"The CIA is not now nor
has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert
action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that
capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting
"intelligence" justifying those activities... Disinformation
is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American
people are the primary target audience of its lies.
... The Agency's task is to develop an intemational anti-communist
ideology. The CIA then links every egalitarian political movement
to the scourge of intemational communism. This then prepares the
American people and many in the world community for the second
stage, the destruction of those movements. For egalitarianism
is the enemy and it must not be allowed to exist."

Ralph McGehee in his book "Deadly
Deceits"

"The "war on terrorism"
purports to defend the American Homeland and protect the "civilized
world". It is upheld as a "war of religion", a
"clash of civilizations", when in fact the main objective
of this war is to secure control and corporate ownership over
the region's extensive oil wealth, while also imposing under the
helm of the IMF and the World Bank, the privatization of state
enterprises and the transfer of the countries' economic assets
into the hands of foreign capital."

Michel Chossudovsky

"It is the function of
the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach
the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment
spend any amount of money on arms."

John Stockwell, CIA official in
the 1960s and 1970s

"If the Agency [CIA] actually
reported the truth about the Third World, what would it say? It
would say that the United States installs foreign leaders, arms
their armies, and empowers their police all to help those leaders
repress an angry, defiant people; that the CIA-empowered leaders
represent only a small faction who kill, torture, and impoverish
their own people to maintain their position of privilege."

Ralph McGehee in his book "Deadly
Deceits"

"Almost from the beginning,
the CIA engaged not only in the collection of intelligence information,
but also in covert operations which involved rigging elections
and manipulating labor unions abroad, carrying on paramilitary
operations, overturning governments, assassinating foreign officials,
protecting former Nazis and lying to Congress."

former Senator George McGovern,
1987

"In every country, embassies
are used for spying. So, it would be dumb for a country to put
its real intelligence-gathering officers inside an embassy or
consulate or attaché', because that is the first place
a hosting nation is going to look for spies. So, the number one
place the United States and other countries place their intelligence-gathering
officers and informants is NGOs. In Russia, Central Asia, the
Caucasus, and elsewhere in the world, United States' NGOs - over
90% of them - are operations bases for the CIA."
Sibel Edmonds

ENEMIES

"The need for major states
as enemies stems partly from the fact that only the perceived
presence of enemy states can justify military spending at the
level which the industries concerned have come to demand."

David Edwards - Burning All Illusions

"There was no comer of
the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger
or under actual attack If the interests were not Roman, they were
those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, then allies
would be invented When it was utterly impossible to contrive such
an interest-why, then it was the national honor that had been
insulted. The fight was a/ways invested with an aura of legality.
Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors, always
fighting for a breathing space. The whole world was pervaded by
a host of enemies, and it was manifestly Rome's duty to guard
against their indubitably aggressive designs."

"However unlikely some
of the possible alternate enemies may seem, we must emphasize
that one must be found, of credible quality and magnitude, if
a transition to peace is ever to come about without social disintegration....
It is more probable, in our judgment, that such a threat will
have to be invented, rather than developed from unknown conditions."

Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

"Enemies are necessary
for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn."

former CIA official John Stockwell

"Our government has kept
us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede
of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we
did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds
demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have
happened, seem never to have been quite real."

General Douglas MacArthur, 1957,
as quoted in "American Caesar" by William Manchester,
1978

"Were the Soviet Union
to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial
establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until
some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be
an unacceptable shock to the American economy."

George Kennan, State Department
Cold War strategist

"However unlikely some
of the possible alternate enemies ... may seem, we must emphasize
that one must be found, of credible quality and magnitude, if
a transition to peace is ever to come about without social disintegration...
It is more probable, in our judgment, that such a threat will
have to be invented, rather than developed from unknown conditions."

Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

"Now that the cold war
is becoming a memory, America's foreign policy establishment has
begun searching for new enemies. Possible new villains include
"instability" in Europe, the "vanishing" ozone
layer, nuclear proliferation, and narco-terrorism. Topping the
list of potential new global bogeymen, however, are the Yellow
Peril, the alleged threat to American economic security emanating
from East Asia, and the so-called Green Peril (green is the color
of Islam)."

Leon T. Hadar, Cato Institute,
in the 1990s

"Among Latin American elites,
a peasant asking for a higher wage or a priest helping organize
a peasant cooperative is a communist. And someone going so far
as to suggest land reform or a more equitable tax system is a
communist fanatic. There is no word or act suggesting the desirability
of elite generosity toward the poor, or the need for education,
organization or material advance for the majority, that has not
been branded communistic in Latin America in recent decades. ...
Since communism is the enemy and peasants trying to improve themselves,
priests with the slightest humanistic proclivity, and naturally
anyone seriously challenging the status quo, are communists, they
are also, by definition, enemies."

Edward S. Herman

"The whole aim of practical
politics is to keep the populace alarmed ... by menacing it with
an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary... The
urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the
urge to rule it."

H L Mencken, In Defense of Women,
Dover Publications, 1918

"The ruling elites know
who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people
at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants
more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value
of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed,
that's their enemy."

Michael Parenti

"America cherishes her
enemies. Without enemies, she is a nation without purpose and
direction. The various components of the National Security State
need enemies to justify their swollen budgets, to aggrandize their
work, to protect their jobs, to give themselves a mission in the
aftermath of the Soviet Union."

William Blum in his book "Rogue
State"

"How does continuous war
act to keep the Lows "stupefied by poverty" and thereby
assure the maintenance of the social structure? The goal of the
wars is to enable the economy to be kept going for the benefit
of the High, its military, and its bureaucracy and control personnel
(the Thought Police, etc.), but at the same time to assure that
any excess production capacity is prevented from producing consumer
goods for the lower classes. That excess capacity is instead directed
to producing excess military goods which will ' ultimately rust
away or be destroyed in warfare; that is, the excess capacity
is deliberately wasted in order to turn it away from the production
of goods which would result in added leisure or well-being for
the lower classes. Those classes are instead continually forced
into group activities expressing hatred toward the current enemy
(any enemy) and dependency upon and love toward their benevolent
rulers for protecting them from that enemy. They are thereby led
to accept the consumer shortages, the poverty, and the other privations
to which they are subjected. Their economic status is kept at
the subsistence level, forcing their priorities to be focused
on simply acquiring basic food, clothing, and shelter. They are
thus denied either the time or the inclination to question the
fairness or permanence of their societal condition, or to otherwise
evolve into a threat to the established hierarchy."

George Orwell in his book "1984"

"It is now clear that we
are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world
domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no
rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct
do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing
American concepts of "fair play" must be reconsidered.
We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services
and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by
more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than
those used against us. It may become necessary that the American
people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally
repugnant philosophy."

"The collapse of the Soviet
Union ... ended China's main usefulness to the United States as
an ally, while enhancing its new status as a possible long-term
rival to American hegemony. In the wake of the Cold War, with
the Pentagon intent on maintaining near Cold War levels of military
spending, enemies on the global horizon were much needed.
With the Soviet army increasingly seen as a disintegrating "paper
tiger," China's economic emergence as a major power in the
Pacific offered one possible fit with the Pentagon's need for
a major enemy."

Chalmers Johnson in his book "Blowback"

"There's really no serious
proposal about what to do about the severe problems of health,
education, homelessness, joblessness, crime, soaring criminal
populations, jails, deterioration in the inner cities - the whole
raft of problems... In such circumstances you've got to divert
the bewildered herd, because if they start noticing this they
may not like it, since they're the ones suffering from it... You
have to whip them up into fear of enemies."

Noam Chomsky in his book "Media
Control"

"This is total war. We
are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out
there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan,
then we will do Iraq, then we take a look around and see how things
stand. This is entirely the wrong way to go about it... If we
just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely,
and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just
wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about
us years from now."

neoconservative Richard Perle

"In the eyes of officials
and citizens of a given country, a 'terrorist' is someone who
is killing friends, but the murderer of political enemies is labeled
a 'rebel' or a 'freedom fighter."

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carl
T. Rowan, 1984

"In order to rally people,
governments need enemies...if they do not have a real enemy, they
will invent one in order to mobilize us."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist
monk

"The need for major states
as enemies stems partly from the fact that only the perceived
presence of enemy states can justify military spending at the
level which the industries concerned have come to demand."

Anatol Lieven in his book "America
Right or Wrong"

"From the era of US wars
to disarm and eliminate "merciless Indian savages" to
the era of capitalist wars to contain and then vanquish red communism,
to the current era of global police and military operations mounted
in the name of opposing the largely manufactured demon of al-Qaeda,
the American empire of material aggrandizement has always required
an external enemy to give military support to the expansionary
enterprises of its biggest engines of corporate profit. It has
required pretexts to present wars of aggression as self-defence."

Anthony J. Hall in his book "Earth
into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism"

ENVIRONMENTALISM

"'Big Green' has been used
to describe the biggest environmental organizations in the United
States. These are heavily-staffed, well-funded non-profit corporations
each with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars a year, offices
in Washington, DC and other major cities, highly paid executive
directors, and a staff of lobbyists, analysts and marketers. Big
Green environmental groups together raise and spend hundreds of
millions of dollars a year, most of it contributed by non-profit
foundations and individual donors. Many of the Big Green groups
partner with corporations and have representatives of major corporations
on their boards of directors."

"Report from Iron Mountain
(1967) was the first publication to draw together themes that
have been linked together ever since. It is the source document
for a key constellation of ideas, namely: (1) that the threat
of war must be replaced by another threat, preferably global in
scope, (2) that the ecothreat is the best of several possible
replacements, and, finally, (3) that the threat must be cultivated
and the populace prepared before the "solution" to the
threat can be applied."

Larry Abraham with Franklin Sanders
in their book "The Greening: The Environmentalists' Drive
for Global Power"

"It may be that gross pollution
of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass
destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat
to the survival of the species. Poisoning of the air, and of the
principal sources of food and water supply, is already well advanced,
and at first glance would seem promising in this respect; it constitutes
a threat that can be dealt with only through social organization
and political power. But from present indications it will be a
generation to a generation and a half before environmental pollution,
however severe, will be sufficiently menacing, on a global scale,
to offer a possible basis for a solution."

Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

"The World Wildlife Fund
is supported by the Rockefeller family and a host of oligarchical
families and major corporations. It is an organization of stealth
designed to parade about as a pro-environment, pro-animal organization
but in reality, is a tool of the 1% to gain control of wildlife
and wildlife refuges for the benefit of international banks and
corporations."

Brandon Turbeville, 2016

"The figures at the helm
of each and every one of the major environmental foundations such
as the World Wildlife Fund, the Heritage Trust, the Nature Conservancy,
the National Wildlife Federation, The Sierra Club, the World Wilderness
Congress, Conservation International, and the Center for Earth
Resource Analysis, are key members of the elite political organizations,
including the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Council
on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, the Club of Rome,
and the Trilateral Commission)."

Larry Abraham with Franklin Sanders
in their book "The Greening: The Environmentalists' Drive
for Global Power"

"The WWF [World Wildlife Fund]
was established in 1961... Thirty years later, the WWF controls
10% of the world's surface."

Dutch Attorney J. Wilgers

"The figures at the helm
of each and every one of the major environmental foundations (such
as the World Wildlife Fund, the Heritage Trust, the Nature Conservancy,
the National Wildlife Federation, The Sierra Club, the World Wilderness
Congress, Conservation International, and the Center for Earth
Resource Analysis are key members of the elite political organizations
previously and repetitiously identified (i.e., the Royal Institute
of International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Bilderberg Group, the Club of Rome, and the Trilateral Commission)."

Larry Abraham with Franklin Sanders
in their book "The Greening: The Environmentalists' Drive
for Global Power"

Wall Street Journal, November 8,
1989

"The environmental issue
has clearly been selected as the major policy initiative to be
developed... It might be possible to enhance the environmental
threat, or even to invent a fake issue if an appropriate real
one could not be found."

Larry Abraham with Franklin Sanders
in their book "The Greening: The Environmentalists' Drive
for Global Power"

"The global elites genuinely
believe they are the destined elite worthy to rule the world.
Environmentalism is merely the rally, ragged rationalization designed
to hoodwink the world into accepting their rule."

ESPIONAGE ACT - 1917
/ SEDITION ACT - 1918

"Anti-war protesters in
1917, after the Espionage Act was passed, were often arrested
and sentenced... Today's Espionage Act, ostensibly \directed at
domestic terrorism, is just as wide-ranging."

William F. Pepper in his book "An
Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King"

"The Espionage Act of 1917
made it a crime punishable by a fine of $10,000 and 20 years in
jail to attempt to "convey false reports or false statements
with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the
military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the
success of its enemies...or attempt to cause insubordination,
disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal to duty.
... The Sedition Act of 1918, made it illegal to "utter,
print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or
abusive language about the form of government of the United States...or
any language intended to...encourage resistance to the United
States."

Annie Zirin, 2002

"The Sedition Act passed
by the Federalist Congress in 1798 prohibited "any false,
scandalous and malicious writing... against the government of
the United States, or President of the United States, with intent
to defame said government (or Congress or President) with intent
to bring them into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against
them the hatred of the good people of the United States."

Lewis Lapham in his book "Gag
Rule"

"The Espionage Act of 1917,
and an amendment, the Sedition Act of 1918 made it a crime to
"willfully utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane,
scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of
the United States," punishable by a $10,000 fine and up to
twenty years in prison."

Sherry Wolf, 2006

EUROPEAN ROYAL DYNASTIC
FAMILIES

In Europe today there are only
ten monarchies left.

"At the center of oligarchy
is the idea that certain families are born to rule as an arbitrary
elite, while the vast majority of any given population is condemned
to oppression, serfdom, or slavery. Oligarchs identify wealth
purely in money terms, and practice usury, monetarism, and looting.
The oligarchy has believed for millennia that the Earth is overpopulated.
The essence of oligarchism is summed up in the idea of the empire,
in which an elite identifying itself as a master race rules over
a degraded mass of slaves or other oppressed victims. If oligarchical
methods are allowed to dominate human affairs, they always create
a breakdown crisis of civilization, with economic depression,
war, famine, plague, and pestilence. A pillar of the oligarchical
system is the family fortune. The continuity of the family fortune
which earns money through usury and looting is often more important
than the biological continuity across generations of the family
that owns the fortune."

"The Venetian Black Nobility
and the Concept of Oligarchy" an article by Dr. Webster Griffin
Tarpley & James Higham

"By the early 1930's, the
British Crown had a stranglehold on the biggest supplies of gold
and diamonds ever found in the world. Now, the Committee of 300
had at its disposal both the vast fortune coming from the drug
trade and the equally vast fortune of the minieral and metal wealth
of South Africa. Financial control of the world was complete."

John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'
Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300"

"The British East India
Company/British government held the monopoly in opium trading
- the only people allowed to make instant fortunes were the nobility,
the aristocracy, the plutocrats and oligarchical families of England."

John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'
Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300"

"European dynastic families
constitute a financial oligarchy; they are the power behind the
Windsor throne [Britain]. They view themselves as the heirs to
the Venetian oligarchy, which infiltrated and subverted England
from the period 1509-1715, and established a new, more virulent,
Anglo-Dutch-Swiss strain of the oligarchic system of imperial
Babylon, Persia, Rome, and Byzantium."

historian Jeffrey Steinberg, henrymakow.com
2004

"The European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious
entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations,
which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections.
Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg
Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),
United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull &
Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF),
World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham
House (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs ­
RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England's
psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild
owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many
others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in
favor of Great Britain's aristocracy and their one world government
agenda. Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead
to the Queen of England."

John Colman, 2012

"The Swedish Nobel and
French Rothschild families discovered oil in Russia through their
Far East Trading Company, which later combined with Oppenheimer
family interests to become Shell Oil. The Dutch House of Orange
joined forces with the British House of Windsor in the Dutch East
Indies to launch Royal Dutch Petroleum."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big
Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

"The British Crown, i.e.,
the Royal Family, joined the British East India Company's trade,
and used it as a vehicle to produce opium in Bengal, and elsewhere
in India, controlling exports through what was called "transit
duties," that is, the Crown levied a tax on all producers
of opium duly registered with the state authority, who were sending
their opium to China.
Prior to 1896, when the opium trade was still "illegal"-
there never having been the slightest attempt to stop the trade
- colossal amounts of opium were shipped out of India on board
"China Tea Clippers" which supposedly carried chests
of tea from India and China to the London exchanges."

John Coleman in his book "The
Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power"

"Royal Dutch/Shell is controlled
by the Rothschild, Oppenheimer, Nobel and Samuel families along
with the British House of Windsor and the Dutch House of Orange."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big
Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

"The Black Nobility are
the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century
held privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three
crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian
Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling
class. In 1204 the oligarchic families parceled out feudal enclaves
to their members, and from this date, they built up power until
government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility
families.
The European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements
of numerous secret societies and organizations, which are backed
with high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizations
include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR), United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF),
World Bank, Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Club of Rome,
Chatham House, and many others. Present day European Black Nobility
families are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the original
Black Nobility families of Venice from which the House of Windsor
and thus
the present Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II descends."

John Coleman in his book "The
Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power"

"During the Middle Ages, European power centers coalesced
into two camps: the Ghibellines and the Guelphs. The Pope then
allied himself with the Guelphs against the Ghibellines resulting
in their victory. All of modern history stems directly from the
struggle between these two powers. The Guelphs were also called
the Black Guelphs and Black Nobility. Every subsequent coup d'état,
revolution and war has centered in the battle of the Guelphs to
hold and enhance their power, which is now the World Order. The
power of the Guelphs grew through their control of banking and
international trade."

Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley &
James Higham in their book "The Venetian Black Nobility and
the Concept of Oligarchy"

"Every British monarch
since 1729 has benefited immensely from the drug trade."

John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'
Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300"

"There is a vast network
of private financial interests, controlled by the leading aristocratic
and royal families of Europe.
A secret cross-linked vast holding of private financial interests,
tied to the told aristocratic oligarchy of Western Europe, was
developed (Club of the Isles). It was in many ways modeled on
the 17th-century British or Dutch East India Company models.
The center of this Club of the Isles is the financial center of
the old British Empire, the "City of London"."

William Engdahl , Executive Intelligence
Review, April 1997

"Dope = Big Business and
Big Business is done by the oligarchical families of Europe and
the United States Eastern Liberal Establishment. The drug business
is not a Mafia operation, nor one run by the Colombian cocaine
cartels. The noble families of Britain and America's top people
are not going to advertise their role in the shop windows; they
always have a layer of front men to do the dirty work."

John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'
Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300"

FALSE FLAGS

"The easiest way to gain
control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public
will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened."

Josef Stalin

"The easiest way to carry
out a false flag attack is by setting up a military exercise that
simulates the very attack you want to carry out . This is exactly
how government perpetrators in the US and UK handled the 9/11
and 7/7 "terror" attacks, which were in reality government
attacks blamed on "terrorists"."

Captain Eric H. May, former Army
military intelligence and public affairs officer, 2008

"9/11 was an example of
state-sponsored, false-flag, synthetic terrorism. The 9/11 events
were organized and directed by a rogue network of high government
and military officials of the United States, with a certain participation
by the intelligence agencies of Britain and Israel, and with a
more general backup from the intelligence agencies of the other
Echelon states Australia, New Zealand, Canada."

Webster Griffin Tarpley in his
book "9/11 Synthetic Terror - made in the USA"

"For many Americans, the
idea that we are living in a country whose own leaders planned
and carried out the attacks of 9/11 is simply too horrible to
entertain. Unfortunately, however, there is strong evidence in
support of this view."

9/11 and American Empire : Intellectuals
Speak Out
edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott

"Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz,
Stephen Hadley, Elliott Abrams, and Condoleezza Rice ran the attacks
[9/11].
It was called a stand down, a false flag operation in order to
mobilize the American public under false pretenses... it was told
to me by the general on the staff of Wolfowitz.
I taught stand down and false flag operations at the national
war college, I've taught it with all my operatives so I knew exactly
what was done to the American public."

"Sandy Hook was what is
known as an Integrated Capstone Event (ICE), and these events
involve numerous federal and local agencies including local police.
This "event" was a drill that was put on by DHS and
FEMA as a training exercise to coordinate federal, state and local
emergency response teams in the case of a mass-casualty event.
This was just a simulated event for training purposes. The event
was not a real school shooting, and nobody actually died at Sandy
Hook."

Charlie Robinson, in his book "The
Octopus of Global Control", 2017

POWER: "At half past nine
this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company
of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs
going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened
this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck
standing up right now."
BBC HOST: "To get this quite straight, you were running an
exercise to see how you would cope with this and it happened while
you were running the exercise?"
POWER: "Precisely."

Peter Power, former Scotland Yard
anti-terrorism agent, who was a contract employee working in government
exercises on the day of the July 2007 London railway bombings
- interviewed by BBC

"The owner of all three
[World Trade Center] buildings was Larry Silverstein, who had
recently doubled the insurance value of the Twin Towers. He stated
in a PBS interview that he and the New York Fire Department agreed
to a controlled demolition of WTC 7. Since skyscrapers are not
[normally] wired for demolition -- unless someone intends to demolish
them -- Silverstein's statement is an admission that 9/11 was
an inside job."

Captain Eric H. May, former Army
military intelligence and public affairs officer, 2008

"[Operation Northwoods]
The U.S. government declassified documents showing that in the
1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan
to blow up American airplanes, and also to commit terrorist acts
on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order
to justify an invasion of Cuba."

Washington's Blog, Global Research,
2010

"The Israeli embassy had
been advised in advance by Scotland Yard of an impending bomb
attack [London, July 7, 2005]:
Just before the blasts, Scotland Yard called the security officer
at the Israeli Embassy to say they had received warnings of possible
attacks.
... Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by
his embassy not to attend an economic conference. Netanyahu was
staying at the Aidridge Hotel in Mayfair. The conference venue
was a few miles away at the Great Eastern Hotel close to the Liverpool
subway station; where one of the bomb blasts occurred."

Michel Chossudovsky in his book
" America's War on Terrorism"

"The former Italian Prime
Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence
admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried
out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the
1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people's support
for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism."

Washington's Blog, 2010

"At least until 1978, the
Israeli secret service infiltrated Italian subversive organizations
and on more than one occasion gave arms, money and information
to the terrorist Red Brigades. The Israeli plan was to reduce
Italy to a country torn by civil war so that the United States
would have to depend more on Israel for security in the Mediterranean."

Italian senior magistrate Ferdinando
Imposimato

"In the United States,
every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag
or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI."

Robert David Steele, former CIA
agent

"The reason why there are
only a few nations that do false flags is that you need really
top-of-the-line covert operations teams. The U.S. has certainly
got them, and a few NATO nations have them... The other problem
that you have is that you need total control over mainstream media...
The United States does. Brittan does. Israel does. They can be
assured when something goes down they are going to have a totally
sympathetic global media that will work hand in glove with them,
and that will block out uncomfortable questions and the like."

Richard Dolan

"The United States has
the remarkable ability to stage exercises simulating the exact
events that are actually taking place, such as the bombing exercise
in Boston, and the hijacking exercise on September 11, 2001. The
United Kingdom must have this ability as well because they were
running a drill simulating a bombing of London's subway stations
at the exact same time that there was an actual bombing of London's
subway system. What a coincidence."

Charlie Robinson, in his book "The
Octopus of Global Control", 2017

"The truth about 9/11 is
so horrific that if the American people actually were to learn
that truth they would completely lose confidence in their system,
because the truth of matter is that a faction of power in the
United States - the neoconservative faction - orchestrated the
events of September 11, 2001, as a New Pearl Harbor designed to
launch their agenda of world domination and a rollback of freedom
in the United States."

Dr. Kevin Barrett

"If you tell a lie big
enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe
it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State
can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military
consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for
the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the
truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the
truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister
of Propaganda

"The high officials, media
executives and military officers who are bound by law and ethics
to serve the American people have become a textbook example of
a grand conspiracy. To look at it from their point of view, they
are historic actors who are beyond good and evil, who must stimulate
the American people to a necessary geostrategic adventure by any
means necessary. To them, the official account of the 9/11 'terror'
attacks is what Plato once described as the 'noble lie,' a necessary
falsehood told to a childlike public in order to direct it maturely."

Captain Eric H. May, former Army
military intelligence officer

FASCISM

"Fascism should more appropriately
be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate
power."

Benito Mussolini - dictator of
Italy

"When fascism comes to
America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

Sinclair Lewis, 1835

"Don't even whisper that
the USA is a fascist empire, even though it's obvious to anyone
who's even half awake that corporations own the government on
every level, and that fascism by Mussolini's own definition is
the merger of state and corporate power."

John R. Hall

"Bankers represent corporatist
fascism and monopoly. Through their great wealth they control
most governments and their court systems. That is why your elected
representatives do not listen to you. They have already been purchased
by Wall Street and banking. These are the same people who have
financed most wars on both sides for centuries. Through their
banks, and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), they
control money laundering and the worldwide drug trade, which is
the most lucrative of all enterprises."

Bob Chapman

"The first truth is that
the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate
the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger
than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism
- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by
any other controlling private power."

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), 2007

"The really dangerous American
fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an
American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The
American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method
is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist
the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public
but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving
the fascist and his group more money or more power.
They claim to be superpatriots, but they would destroy every liberty
guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise but
are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final
objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture
political power so that, using the power of the state and the
power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man
in eternal subjugation."

US Vice President Henry Wallace
to the New York Times, April 9, 1944

"I wouldn't call it fascism
exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible,
dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical,
controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt
political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either"

columnist Edward Zehr

"The central bank of a
nation finances monopoly industry and imperial states, both of
which are created out of debt bondage to the central bank. Both
the commercial/industrial elites and political elites merge their
interests - the state will pursue imperial policies that have
the effect of benefiting industry, while industry will support
the building of a strong, powerful state (and provide a cozy job
for the political elite upon leaving the public sector). This
makes up the ruling class of a nation, the capitalists, or owners
of the means of production, merging with the political rulers
of the nation [a definition of fascism]."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

"The dictionary definition
of fascism is government control over the means of production
with ownership held in private hands... The twentieth century
fascism of Germany was private monopoly control over the government
which then did control industry, but in such a way as to favor
the monopolists and to prevent competition."

G. Edward Griffin

"Fascism emerges in the
midst of a capitalist crisis when the ruling elements mobilize
chauvinism and racism to divert the attention of the working people
from mobilizing against the capitalist class. This was the concrete
experience of fascism during the last major capitalist depression."

Horace G. Campbell

"The Nazi state is a dictatorship
of monopoly capitalism. Its 'fascism' is that of business enterprise
organized on a monopoly basis, and in full command of all the
military, police, legal and propaganda power of the state."

economist Robert Brady

"There will be no swastikas
in an American fascism, but Stars and Stripes and Christian crosses.
No fascist salute, but mass recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance.
These symbols contain no whiff of fascism in themselves, of course,
but an American fascism would transform them into obligatory litmus
tests for detecting the internal enemy."

historian Robert O. Paxton

"The CFR is a supragovermnental
organization that overshadows congress. It is financed by the
Tax-exempt Foundations, and portrays itself as a humanitarian
group. But its objectives are to erode national sovereignty and
merge America into a worldwide government under the control of
its members, which include people of tremendous wealth. Basically,
their goal is global fascism. The CFR is responsible for setting
major policy, which is activated without public knowledge or consent.
It is beyond congressional investigation."

Mark M. Rich, "The Hidden
Evil"

"The chief distinction
of fascism is the partnership between business and government."

Larry Abraham with Franklin Sanders,
"The Greening"

"Dominionists wait only
for a fiscal, social or political crisis, a moment of upheaval
in the form of an economic meltdown or another terrorist strike
on American soil, to move to reconfigure the political system.
Such a crisis could unleash a public clamor, for drastic new national
security measures and draconian reforms to safeguard the nation.
Widespread discontent and fear, stoked and manipulated by dominionists
and their sympathizers could be used by these radicals to sweep
aside the objections of beleaguered moderates in Congress and
the courts, those clinging to a bankrupt and discredited liberalism,
to establish an American theocracy, a Christian fascism."

Chris Hedges

"Every day that the conservatives
in Congress, the right-wing talking heads, and their noisy minions
are allowed to hold up our ability to govern the country is another
day we're slowly creeping across the final line - toward fascism
- beyond which, history tells us, no country has ever been able
to return."

Sara Robinson

"Hitler has a deep respect
for the Catholic church and the Jesuit order; not because of their
Christian doctrine, but because of the 'machinery' they have elaborated
and controlled, their hierarchical system, their extremely clever
tactics, their knowledge of human nature and their wise use of
human weaknesses in ruling over believers."

Hermann Rauschning, 1939

"The United States is extremely
lucky that no honest, charismatic figure has arisen. Every charismatic
figure is such an obvious crook that he destroys himself, like
McCarthy or Nixon or the evangelist preachers. If somebody comes
along who is charismatic and honest this country is in real trouble
because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger
and the absence of any coherent response. What are people supposed
to think if someone says 'I have got an answer, we have an enemy'?
There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants
and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a persecuted
minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and the
honor of the nation. Military force will be exalted. People will
be beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if
it happens it will be more dangerous than Germany."

Noam Chomsky

"I'm afraid, based on my
own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name
of national security."

Jim Garrison, New Orleans District
Attorney, prosecutor in the JFK assassination conspiracy trial

"It may well be that the
real agenda of the George W Bush administration is to create a
kind of soft fascism, a presidential dictatorship or one-party
system that presides over a de facto Christian plutocracy, and
that has managed to squelch all opposing voices."

Morris Berman

"Franklin Delano Roosevelt
warned Congress in 1938 that when government is controlled by
private economic power, he called that fascism. And he would consider
today's control by private economic power -- namely, giant corporations
astride the world -- as an even more advanced form of what he
called fascism: control of government by corporate interests...
the clinical definition of "fascism" is when private
concentrated economic power takes government away from the people,
turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of
corporate power. And corporations now have their executives in
high government positions. They have 35,000 full-time lobbies
here... And they have 10,000 political action committees."

Ralph Nader, 2007

"US policymakers use fascism
to protect capitalism, while claiming they are saving democracy
from Communism."

Michael Parenti

"Fascism is the imposed
dictatorship of the ruling class utilizing armed force to preserve
the social-economic system wherever it is collapsing. The destruction
of democracy-"that bourgeois illusion"-the suppression
of all civil liberties, the destruction of the trade unions and
the intellectuals, the glorification of the State-these are the
natural results of the coming into power of a regime whose one
purpose is the salvation of the profit system and whose hired
leaders are superpatriots, demagogues, militarists, political
racketeers, and fanatics."

George Seldes

"I know the capacity that
is there to make tyranny total in America."

Senator Frank Church, 1975

"When and if fascism finally
takes hold in America, the basic forms of government will remain...
Fascism will appear to be friendly. The legislators will be in
session. There will be elections, and the news media will continue
to cover the entertainment and political trivia. Consent of the
governed, however, will no longer apply. Actual control will have
finally passed to the oligarchic elite controlling the government
behind the scenes."

John W. Whitehead, 2015

"Left unchecked, the hatred
for radical Islam will transform itself into a hatred for Muslims.
The hatred for undocumented workers will become a hatred for Mexicans
and Central Americans. The hatred for those not defined by this
largely white movement as American patriots will become a hatred
for African-Americans. The hatred for liberals will morph into
a hatred for all democratic institutions, from universities to
government agencies to the press. Our continued impotence and
cowardice, our refusal to articulate this anger and stand up in
open defiance to the Democrats and the Republicans, will see us
swept aside for an age of terror and blood."

Chris Hedges

"People have reached a
point where anything which will save them from Communism is a
godsend; and if Fascism or Nazism promises more security than
our own democracy we may even turn to them."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Democracy is dead in the
United States and the forces of tyranny and authoritarianism offer
no apologies for their hatred of democracy and the culture of
poverty, immiseration, and cruelty that they want to impose on
the American people, if not the rest of the world.
... The protean forces for creating an authoritarian state are
in full play in the United States and extend far beyond the shadow
of a debased and corrupt politics. A set of complex forces working
in tandem is slowly, insidiously eroding the very foundations
of a civic and democratic culture. Some of the most glaring issues
are massive unemployment; a rotting infrastructure; the defunding
of vital public services; the dismantling of the social safety
net; expanding levels of poverty, especially for children; and
an imprisonment binge largely targeting poor minorities of color."

Henry Giroux

"It would be easy for us,
if we do not learn to understand the world and appreciate the
rights, privileges and duties of all other countries and peoples,
to represent in our power the same danger to the world that Fascism
did."

Ernest Hemingway

"We are being ruled by
an oligarchy disguised as a democracy, and arguably on our way
towards fascism - a form of government where private corporate
interests rule, money calls the shots, and the people are seen
as mere subjects to be controlled.
...We are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and
corporate interests. We have moved into "corporatism"
which is a halfway point on the road to full-blown fascism."

John W. Whitehead, 2015

"Fascism: a system of government
that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically
through the merging of state and business leadership, together
with belligerent nationalism."

American Heritage Dictionary, 1983

"A principle of Italian
corporatism, and economic fascism in general, is that private
property and business ownership are permitted, but are in reality
controlled by government through a business-government 'partnership'."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

"The Rockefeller group
within the American power establishment, along with numerous related
corporate heads from Henry Ford to the DuPonts, had long been
attracted to the European models of Mussolini's corporatist Fascism
and even German Nazism."

F. William Engdahl, "The Gods
of Money"

"The elements are in place
for fascism: a weak legislative body, a legal system that is both
compliant and repressive, a party system in which one party, whether
in opposition or in the majority, is bent upon reconstituting
the existing system so as to permanently favor a ruling class
of the wealthy, the well-connected and the corporate.
... That scheme is abetted by a sycophantic and increasingly concentrated
media."

Sheldon Wolin, "Inverted Totalitarianism",
The Nation, May 19, 2003

"Rather than forcing a
populace to adhere to a particular state ideology, the general
public in the United States is largely depoliticized through the
influence of corporations over schools, higher education, and
other cultural apparatuses. The deadening of public values, civic
consciousness, and critical citizenship are also the result of
the work of anti-public intellectuals representing right-wing
ideological and financial interests, a powerful corporate controlled
media, and a market-driven public pedagogy that reduces the obligations
of citizenship to the endless consumption and discarding of commodities.
In addition, a pedagogy of historical, social, and racial amnesia
is constructed and ciculated through a highly popular celebrity
culture and its counterpart in corporate-driven news, television,
radio, and entertainment to produce a culture of stupidity, censorship,
and diversionary spectacles."

Henry Giroux

"Fascism is on the march
today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will
come in this country unless a strong defense is set up by all
liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists
is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic
government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in
Germany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of
America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that
if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued,
he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism to
America."

William Dodd, former US Ambassador
to Germany, 1938, told a reporter aboard a U. S.-bound ship

"I think we already have
a fascist executive branch, but that does not translate into systemic
fascism yet. Fascism is a middle class phenomenon, which means
it is something that happens in countries that have achieved a
level of development. Right now we are seeing a preparatory phase
by the fascist executive branch, putting in place the legal infrastructure
to impose a distinctly American fascism if the opportunity arrives.
Guantanamo, PATRIOT Act, the FTAA demonstrations, all of it."

Stan Goff, a retired military.
officer' who has spoken out eloquently against the invasion of
Iraq

"Fascism is a method of
preparing a nation for imperialistic adventures which have in
the past and will in the future include wholesale slaughter as
one of its means."

George Seldes

"With a fascist the problem
is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best
to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist
and his group more money or more power. American fascism will
not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition
among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information.
They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every
liberty guaranteed by the Constitution."

US Vice President Henry Wallace,
1944

"The United States is now
a hair's breath from becoming a turnkey totalitarian state."

William Binney, former NSA officer

"The Weimar Republic [Germany]
was the peak of Western civilization and was regarded as a model
of democracy... In 1928 the Nazis had less than 2 percent of the
vote. Two years later, millions supported them. The public got
tired of the incessant wrangling, and the service to the powerful,
and the failure of those in power to deal with their grievances."

Noam Chomsky

"Authoritarianism in the
American collective psyche and in what might be called traditional
narratives of historical memory is always viewed as existing elsewhere.
Viewed as an alien and demagogic political system, it is primarily
understood as a mode of governance associated with the dictatorships
in Latin America in the 1970s and, of course, in its most vile
extremes, with Hitler's poisonous Nazi rule and Mussolini's fascist
state in the 1930s and 1940s. These were and are societies that
idealized war, soldiers, nationalism, militarism, political certainty,
fallen warriors, racial cleansing, and a dogmatic allegiance to
the homeland. Education and the media were the propaganda tools
of authoritarianism, merging fascist and religious symbols with
the language of God, family, and country, and were integral to
promoting servility and conformity among the populace."

Henry Giroux

FEDERAL RESERVE

These eight private banks own the
most shares of the Federal Reserve. Essentially, they own the
FED.
1. Rothschild Bank of London
2. Warburg Bank of Hamburg
3. Rothschild Bank of Berlin
4. Lehman Brothers of New York (filed for bankruptcy in 2008)
5. Lazard Brothers of Paris
6. Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
7. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
8. Goldman, Sachs of New York
9. Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
10. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York

"The Federal Reserve is
commonly called the "Fed," confusing it with the U.S.
government; but it is actually a private corporation. It is so
private that its stock is not even traded on the stock exchange.
The government doesn't own it. You and I can't own it. It is owned
by a consortium of private banks, the biggest of which are Citibank
and J. P. Morgan Chase Company. These two megabanks are the financial
cornerstones of the empires built by J. P. Morgan and John D.
Rockefeller, the "Robber Barons" who orchestrated the
Federal Reserve Act in 1913."

Ellen Brown in her book "Web
of Debt"

"The Federal Reserve Act
of 1913 authorized the Federal Reserve to lend money to the United
States government at interest, and the Revenue Act of 1913 created
the IRS and authorized the United States government to establish
an income tax on the people to pay for it all."

Charlie Robinson, in his book "The
Octopus of Global Control", 2017

"Every effort has been
made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power, but the
truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the government
of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls
all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at
will. No man and no body of men is more entrenched in power than
the arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve
Board and the Federal Reserve banks. These evil-doers have robbed
this country of more than enough money to pay the national debt."

"The Federal Reserve Act,
1913, [was] a coup that authorized a private cartel to create
money out of nothing, lend it to the government with interest
and control the national money supply, expanding or contracting
it at will."

Nikki Alexander, 2009

"A private central bank
issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties
of the people than a standing army...We must not let our rulers
load us with perpetual debt."

Thomas Jefferson

"The American central bank
(the Fed or the Federal Reserve System) is an institution that
is entrusted to regulate banks and other financial institutions,
but it is partly owned by the large money center banks. It is
in a perpetual conflict of interests. In fact, it can be said
that the Fed is the banks' own private government. In good times,
large Wall Street banks, bank holding companies and other large
integrated financial groups are pretty much left alone and allowed
to build profitable but risky and shaky financial pyramids, with
scant supervision. When things go bad, however, the Fed stands
ready to bail them out with automatic discounting, zero-interest
loans and other goodies, the overall cost being transferred to
the general public through an inflation tax and a debased currency."

Professor Rodrigue Tremblay, Global
Research

"The Federal Reserve banks
are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen.
This nation is run by the International bankers. Every effort
has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers,
but the truth is that the Fed has usurped the government. It controls
everything in Congress and it controls all our foreign relations.
It makes and breaks governments at will."

Charlie Robinson, in his book "The
Octopus of Global Control", 2017

"The Federal Reserve was
set up in 1913. The Fed's real mandate continues to be to keep
the private banking system intact; and that means keeping intact
the system's most valuable asset, a monopoly on creating the national
money supply. Except for coins, every dollar in circulation is
now created privately as a debt to the Federal Reserve or the
banking system it heads."

Ellen Brown, 2008

"When the Federal Reserve
writes a check for a government bond it does exactly what any
bank does, it creates money, it created money purely and simply
by writing a check."

Wright Patman, Chairman of the
House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1960s

"To cover the fact that
a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its
proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon
focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the
public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer
that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from
top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the
public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade...
The Federal Reserve is a scam, and we are its victims."

G. Edward Griffin

"The entire financial and
business cycle of market highs and lows is controlled by how much
money the Federal Reseerve pumps into or removes from the banking
system. When they add money to the system, interest rates fall
and the market rises and when they take money out of the system,
interest rates rise and the stock market falls or corrects. In
doing so, this private corporate structure allows for an elite
group of people to literally buy low and sell high, thus transferring
the wealth into their pockets."

Joan Veon, 2008

"The establishment of the
Federal Reserve (1913) ensured that the United States would become
indebted to and owned by international banking interests, and
thus, act in their interest."

Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research

"Eight families - only
four of which reside in the US. - have 80% ownership of the New
York Federal Reserve Bank, by far the most powerful Fed branch.
They are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs
of New York; the Rothschild's of Paris and London; the Lazards
of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome."

J. W. McCallister, an oil industry
insider with House of Saud connections writing [in The Grim Reaper]
about information he acquired from Saudi bankers - from Dean Henderson's
book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

"There is no reason why
the banks should be in control of the Federal Reserve system."

Senator Robert Owen, 1913

"American history in the
twentieth century has recorded the amazing achievements of the
Federal Reserve bankers. First, the outbreak of World War I, which
was made possible by the funds available from the new central
bank of the United States. Second, the Agricultural Depression
of 1920. Third, the Black Friday Crash on Wall Street of October,
1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. Fourth, World War II. Fifth,
the conversion of the assets of the United States and its citizens
from real property to paper assets from 1945 to the present, transforming
a victorious America and foremost world power in 1945 to the world's
largest debtor nation in 1990. Today, this nation lies in economic
ruins, devastated and destitute, in much the same dire straits
in which Germany and Japan found themselves in 1945."

Eustace Mullins, Secrets of the
Federal Reserve, 1991

"The Federal Reserve is
not interested in the health of the U.S. economy, it is interested
in total globalization of all economies under one totalitarian
umbrella. The real threat to us all is the central banking and
international banking apparatus, including the Bank of International
Settlements (BIS) and the IMF."

Brandon Smith, 2017

"The Federal Reserve is
privately owned. Its shareholders are private banks. In fact,
100% of its shareholders are private banks. None of its stock
is owned by the government."

Ellen Brown, 2008

"The Federal Reserve Bank
creates and regulates the money supply of the United States. It
is a private bank that does not answer to any government agency.
It is run by a director that is appointed but not voted on. It
is not subject to any oversight by the Federal Government. A majority
of the private banks that own the Federal Reserve Bank are international."

Charlie Robinson, in his book "The
Octopus of Global Control", 2017

"The Federal Reserve System
is a privately owned central bank. While the Federal Reserve Board
is a government body, the process of money creation is controlled
by the twelve Federal Reserve banks, which are privately owned.
The shareholders of the Federal Reserve banks (with the New York
Federal Reserve Bank playing a dominant role) are among America's
most powerful financial institutions."

Michel Chossudovsky

"The shareholders of the
banks which own the stock of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
are the people who have controlled our political and economic
destinies since 1914. They are the Rothschilds, of Europe, Lazard
Freres, Israel Sieff, Kuhn Loeb Company, Warburg Company, Lehman
Brothers, Goldman Sachs, the Rockefeller family, and the J.P.
Morgan interests."

Eustace Mullins in his book "The
Secrets of the Federal Reserve"

"When the federal government
needs more money, the Federal Reserve does not merely create and
print it as it would do were it a government agency. No, the Federal
Reserve creates it as a loan and charges the government interest
on it."

U.S. State Senator Jack Metcalf
(R-WA)

"In America today there
are no free financial markets. All the markets are rigged by the
Federal Reserve and the Treasury. The regulatory agencies, controlled
by those the agencies are supposed to regulate, turn a blind eye,
and even if they did not, they are helpless to enforce any law,
because private interests are more powerful than the law."

Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration

"In 2012 the Government
Accounting Office conducted the first top-to-bottom audit of the
Federal Reserve. It revealed that the Fed had provided $16 trillion
in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses
during the 2008 economic crisis."

Ellen Brown

"The Chairman of the Federal
Reserve has one essential mandate: to preserve the power of the
big banks."

F. William Engdahl

"Here are the card-carrying
shareholders in the `Federal' Reserve Corporation: Rothschild
Banks of London and Berlin, Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris, Isreal,
Moses Sieff Banks Of Italy, Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam,
Lehman Brothers Bank of new York, Kuhn Loeb Bank Of New York,
Chase Manhattan Bank Of New York, Goldman Sachs Bank Of New York."

Miles Franklin Newsletter

"In the early 20th century,
European and American banking interests achieved what they had
desired for over a century within America, the creation of a privately
owned central bank [Federal Reserve - 1913]. It was created through
collaboration of American and European bankers, primarily the
Morgans, Rockefellers, Kuhn, Loebs and Warburgs."

Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research

"All public debt operations
go through the Federal Reserve, which is in charge of monetary
policy, acting on behalf of private financial interests. The government
as such has no authority over money creation. This means that
public debt operations essentially serve the interests of the
banks."

Michel Chossudovsky

"The financial system has
been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers
the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group.
The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining
the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money."

Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh,
Sr., 1923

"We have, in this country,
one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known.
I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has
impoverished the people of the United States and has practically
bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt
practices of the moneyed vultures who control it."

Congressman Louis T. McFadden,
1932

"The Federal Reserve Act
of 1913 establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the
president signs this bill, the 'invisible government' by monetary
power will be legalized. The people may not know it yet, but the
day of reckoning is only a few years removed. The worst legislative
crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill."

Rep. Charles Lindbergh Sr. (R,
MN), just prior to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System

"There are six major banks
in the U.S. at the present time, and they control most of the
stock of the Federal Reserve System. The Rockefeller family has
large blocks of stock in two of the major banks: J.P. Morgan Chase
and Citigroup. The Rothschild family has a controlling interest
in two major banks and significant holdings in the other major
banks through the Barclay Bank and the State Street Bank. Why
is that important? Two families control the major banks, the major
banks control the FED, and the FED controls the U.S. economy."

Stanley Monteith

"The dirty little secret
is that both houses of Congress have become irrelevant ... in
case you hadn't noticed, America's domestic policy is now being
run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve Board ... Congress
is out of the loop. Every so often, some senators or house members
politely ask Greenspan to visit and talk about the economy....
Then he goes back down to the Fed and runs the country.".

Robert Reich

"When the President signs
this act [Federal Reserve Act of 1913], the invisible government
by the money power - proven to exist by the Monetary Trust Investigation
- will be legalized. The new law will create inflation whenever
the trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientifically
created."

Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh,
Sr., 1912

"The regional Federal Reserve
banks are not government agencies. ... but are independent, privately
owned and locally controlled corporations."

US Supreme Court ruling - Lewis
vs. United States, 1982

"When you or I write a
check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover the
check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there is no
bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the Federal Reserve
writes a check, it is creating money."

"Putting it simply" Boston
Federal Reserve Bank

"Some people think the
Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government's institutions.
They are not government institutions. They are private credit
monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for
the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers.

"The Federal Reserve ...
controls our monetary policy. By changing the supply of dollars
in circulation, they have influence over interest rates, mortgage
payments, whether the financial markets boom or collapse, and
basically whether our economy expands or stumbles. But the Fed
is only partly an institution of government. The stockholders
in a dozen different Federal Reserve banks in different regions
of the country are the big private banks.
The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913, after a financial
panic that led to a secret meeting at banker J.P. Morgan's private
resort, off the coast of Georgia at a place called Jekyll Island.
... What emerged was a cartel agreement with five objectives:
stop the growing competition from the nation's newer banks; obtain
a franchise to create money out of nothing for the purpose of
lending; get control of the reserves of all banks so that the
more reckless ones would not be exposed to currency drains and
bank runs; get the taxpayer to pick up the cartel's inevitable
losses; and convince Congress that the purpose was to protect
the public. It was realized that the bankers would have to become
partners with the politicians and that the structure of the cartel
would have to be a central bank."

Jesse Ventura in the book "American
Conspiracies"

"The Federal Reserve system
is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest
possible profits from the use of other peoples' money. They know
in advance when to create panics to their advantage, and they
also know when to stop panic. Inflation and deflation work equally
well for them when they control finance."

Rep. Charles Lindbergh Sr. (R.
MN), 1914

"For most of the twentieth
century the Federal Reserve System, particularly the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York (which is outside the control of Congress, unaudited
and uncontrolled, with the power to print money and create credit
at will), has exercised a virtual monopoly over the direction
of the American economy."

Antony C. Sutton in his book "Wall
Street and the Rise of Hitler"

"We are completely dependent
on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we
have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample
synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely
without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp
of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position
is almost incredible, but there it is."

"When the Federal Reserve
Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive
that a world banking system was being set up here. A super state
controlled by international bankers and international industrialists
acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every
effort has been made to conceal its power but the truth is the
Fed has usurped the government."

"What the people of the
United States do not understand and never have understood is that
while the Federal Reserve Act was governmental, the whole Federal
Reserve System is private. It is an officially created private
banking system.
... The Federal Reserve System is a system of private banks, the
creation of a banking aristocracy within an already existing autocracy,
whereby a great proportion of banking independence was lost, and
whereby it was made possible for speculative financiers to centralize
great sums of money for their own purposes, beneficial or not."